Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or resembling the barn-yard fowl; gallinaceous.
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- adjective of, or pertaining to, the
chicken
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Examples
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Verum quia non est expressum de quantitate fenestrarum, ordino, quod maior fenestra duplicata in longitudine sex pedes habeat, spacium sive banca inter cancellos unius pedis et palmi, cancelli duplices ferrei et quadratis virgis ita stricti, ut ne ovum galline possit transmitti.
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Il corto sembra uno di quei pezzi astratti vecchia scuola, ma andrebbe visto come una storia del mondo dal punto di vista delle galline.
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Vne pillule fromentine, vne dragme sermentine, et la balbe [32] d'vne galline est vne bonne medecine.
Bacon is Shake-Speare Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence 1875
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We have only space enough to state that the authors have proved, upon the most incontrovertible evidence, that the dodo was neither a vulture, ostrich, nor galline, as previously anatomists supposed, but a 'frugiverous pigeon'.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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The Boston Globe has finally wised up to the growing galline menace, and also managed to discover that it’s not just Brookline, the whole Greater Boston Metropolitan Area is a veritable hotbed of turkeydom Hey, you Yankees fans, watch it with the jokes.
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1893 OsW 1862-1893 OsW galline domestic fowl ralline rail 1885-1892
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